Slight problem since last map update
Sat, 05/03/2014 - 2:26pm
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    11 years
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I updated my 3790 a while back to the newest Garmin map and it worked fine all the way home from Mexico. But I always set up a route. The GPS zoomed in on the roads and highways I was on just fine.
Now that I am home and in my own town almost never have the need to set up a route where ever I travel it looks like I am at about 5 miles altitude.
What settings am I missing? I have never had this before.
On a route or not the map was always zoomed in. This is somewhat annoying.
Thanks for any help.
Just a guess. Could this be
Just a guess. Could this be what you are seeing https://support.garmin.com/support/searchSupport/case.faces?...
Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.
Muchas gracias, thank you, thank you
I believe that is the answer to my problem. I have not taken the GPS for a ride, but just unchecking the DEM box seemed to do it.
It is strange since in the past I had always chosen the 3D view over route up or north up.
Nuvi 2797LMT, DriveSmart 50 LMT-HD, Using Windows 10. DashCam A108C with GPS.
No good
Took the car and GPS out for a run and there is/was no change. Still looks like I am hovering in outer space.
Nuvi 2797LMT, DriveSmart 50 LMT-HD, Using Windows 10. DashCam A108C with GPS.
What happens when you zoom in?
Use two fingers and zoom in, it should remember the new zoom level after doing that. Works with my 3790 and never had it change except when it zooms in during a route turn and then goes back to the previous zoom level.
I have the latest map in my 3790 and have not experienced any problems.
Garmin Drive Smart 55 - Samsung Note 10 Smartphone with Google Maps & HERE Apps
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Check your map view...sounds like it has been reset (somehow) to 3D mode? It's unclear (at least to me) what exactly you are describing.
On the 37xx series: Tools/Settings/Navigation/Automobile/Map View
If it's currently set to "3-D", this is likely what you are seeing. Setting it to "Track Up" or "North Up" will restore the 2-D mode. "Track Up" will rotate the map as you drive, "North Up" will keep the map aligned to the north and your vehicle/arrow pointer will rotate instead.
EDIT: You mentioned "hovering in outer space"...can you see the entire Earth (or a very large area of it) in the map view? If so, you need to zoom in like "rjrsw" mentions above.
nuvi 760, nuvi 765T, nuvi 855, nuvi 3790LMT, nuvi 3490LMT - SoCal area
I'll try this
Use two fingers and zoom in.
Never ever had to do that, but will give that a try tomorrow.
No I do not see the whole earth but comparing it with MapSource it would seem as if I am 5 or so miles above the map whereas before it was more like 200 feet or so.
I could barely see 4-5 streets ahead of me.
Nuvi 2797LMT, DriveSmart 50 LMT-HD, Using Windows 10. DashCam A108C with GPS.
Same Stuff
Your reports are very similar to the complaints I had/have with the way the 2597 I bought behaves with regard to zoom.
In 3D or North up, there is no zoom at all with no active route. If you manually zoom it out, it will not re-zoom if you slow down and speed back up.
In active routing, zoom only occurs in 3D. In North Up, you have to manually zoom it out, and will remember as long as the route is active and the unit not turned off.
In 3D with an active route, if you leave the map screen to the menu page, zoom will stop and not work again until the unit has been reset. (Hold power off for 10-30 seconds.)
Garmin says this is normal and is incredulous when I told them how my 2555 and 760 worked.
Frank DriveSmart55 37.322760, -79.511267
learns from you
As it happens I press on-screen zoom buttons rather the pretending I have an Apple touch screen, but I find that it generally gets a good idea of what I like pretty quickly--just getting off kilter when I drive an unfamiliar place and use zoom to different than usual.
Just try setting the zoom where you want it a few times and look to see whether the automatic behavior does not become much more "as you like it".
personal GPS user since 1992
Stiil have to go out today.
All the suggestions will be tried, but that still does not explain why ONLY since the last map update to 2014.4 this is happening.
I have had the 3790 for 3 or so years now.
Nuvi 2797LMT, DriveSmart 50 LMT-HD, Using Windows 10. DashCam A108C with GPS.
Follow up to my problem
As many have, I updated to 2015.1 and I can report that the zoomed out condition has disappeared now.
When I start driving it is still zoomed way out but after driving for about 500 feet or so it zoomes back in the way it used to.
Must have had something to do with the 2014.4 map.
Nuvi 2797LMT, DriveSmart 50 LMT-HD, Using Windows 10. DashCam A108C with GPS.
How is it out there in
How is it out there in outerspace? Any aliens out there, haha. Hope everything works out for you